Seed to Harvest (Wild Seed / Mind of My Mind / Clay's Ark / Patternmaster)

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Seed to Harvest (Patternmaster #1-4 omnibus)

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In her classic Patternist series, multiple Hugo and Nebula award-winner Octavia E. Butler established the themes of identity and transformation that echo throughout her distinguished career. Now collected for the first time in one volume, these four novels take readers on a wondrous odyssey from a mythic, primordial past to a fantastic far future.

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Published January 5th 2007 by Grand Central Publishing

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Mar 07, 2012 Jim Leckband rated it 5 of 5 stars

A great artist can write subtle and original variations out of the slimmest themes. Butler wrote "Patternmaster" first and this almost modest book contained the Seeds that were Harvested so movingly by Butler in the books to follow. These books explain how the societies that inhabit the Earth of "Patternmaster" came to be. This is a wild journey and I believe the work as a whole ranks up there with (or is better than) the standards of science fiction, from Foundation to Dune.

Wild Seed has a myt...more

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Sep 19, 2012 Desiree rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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I think my biggest gripe with this series is the cohesion. Even though all four are arranged in chronological order, the actual publication order is: Patternmaster (1976), Mind Of My Mind (1977), Wild Seed (1980), Clay's Ark (1984) and this discrepancy shows. It shows in the writing, ideas and concepts. Wild Seed (Book 1) and Mind of My Mind (Book 2) are the most connected because of Doro and Anyanwu. Clay's Ark (Book 3) just seems like an afterthought and more to give contex...more

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Jun 09, 2013 Chanell rated it 4 of 5 stars

I absolutely love Octavia Butler's work - she's has an immense talent to utilize science fiction to discuss identity, power, race, gender, social controls, freedom - the list can go on! And the plot lines are engaging so you get the benefit of reading an amazing story while also examining all the social constructs.

For this series, I read it in the order she wrote it versus chronological and I believe that's the best way to read it. It helps the reader not get so attached to specific characters...more

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Jan 23, 2013 Michel rated it 5 of 5 stars

Octavia Butler is easily my favorite author. Sadly, she does not get nearly as much recognition as she deserves. When I discovered her (thanks to great college professors) I found myself constantly asked, "Oh are you in Afr. Amer. Lit. (Women's Lit.)?"

Butler's stories are so much more than the color of the heroine's skin. This collection of the Patternist stories is easily my favorite because of the set up, follow through, and end of the series.

The story begins with the amazingly complex Doro an...more

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Sep 08, 2012 Tatiana rated it 5 of 5 stars

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I just reread this compilation of 4 of the novels of her Patternist series, as well as the other one, Lilith's Brood, which is a compilation of her 3 novels of the Xenogenesis series. She's one of my favorite writers ever. I had to go just now and bump her up on my list. The themes she gets at are so important.

With the whole relationship between Doro and Anyanwu, I sort of saw my mother and father's connection to each other again. Doro just operates by force to get his needs met and make what he...more I just reread this compilation of 4 of the novels of her Patternist series, as well as the other one, Lilith's Brood, which is a compilation of her 3 novels of the Xenogenesis series. She's one of my favorite writers ever. I had to go just now and bump her up on my list. The themes she gets at are so important.

With the whole relationship between Doro and Anyanwu, I sort of saw my mother and father's connection to each other again. Doro just operates by force to get his needs met and make what he wants happen. Anyanwu builds families, communities around her that are based on give and take, on her caring for her people. Doro loves his people, too, but he can't seem to see their needs as mattering compared to his needs or wants. He has the power to enforce his wishes, and he just does that. Anwanyu tries and tries to explain to him what he's doing wrong, but he can't hear her. Only after centuries when she is about to self-destruct, to leave him in the only way she can, does he realize she really matters enough to him for him to change a small amount, for him to make a few concessions. Butler seems to understand deeply the interaction of power and coercion with love and need in people's connections.

It brings to mind for me the civil rights movement, when one activist said they thought they would be able to shame white people into doing what's right, then later he realized they had to win their rights. It was a contest and white people weren't going to willingly give up their advantages. It makes me hear again my mother saying to my dad, "you can bully people into doing a lot of things, but you can't bully people into loving you."

Butler sees humanity very clearly with all their fear, their irrational anger and hate, and their unwillingness to accept new ideas. But she sees them in a loving way, too. She loves her characters, I think, even the ones like Doro who persist in doing evil stuff. And what I like about her most is how she can take a story that has an ending nobody would call happy, and somehow make a new way of life out of it. Her characters survive. They adapt. They accept a new normal, even if it's a form of slavery or some other lack of freedom and self determination. They change almost beyond recognition if they have to, and they manage to live and find good in living. She's an amazing writer.

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Mar 01, 2011 Angela rated it 4 of 5 stars

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I always judge a really satisfying book by the way that, when I am done reading it, I put it down on the table and let out a breath I didn't realize I'd been holding.

This edition is really four books, so it's hard to review collectively.

The first book, Wild Seed, is probably the best (and longest). It tells two intertwined stories: that of Doro, a spirit thousands of years old who inhabits the bodies of humans by using their bodies as a temporary vessel as he "feeds" upon them, and Anyanwe, a...more I always judge a really satisfying book by the way that, when I am done reading it, I put it down on the table and let out a breath I didn't realize I'd been holding.

This edition is really four books, so it's hard to review collectively.

The first book, Wild Seed, is probably the best (and longest). It tells two intertwined stories: that of Doro, a spirit thousands of years old who inhabits the bodies of humans by using their bodies as a temporary vessel as he "feeds" upon them, and Anyanwe, a shapeshifter who has lived for hundreds of years by using her supernatural abilities to heal and rebuild her own body. Doro selectively breeds humans in an attempt to create superior beings with psychic and telekinetic powers, and the book doesn't shy away from this by masking it in metaphor: Doro is a slave trader, and those he breeds and controls are all, to varying extents, his property. This alone makes the work nearly unique among SF works; the horror of the plot device is magnified by the very real American race relations of the setting. Anyanwu is forced to struggle between her desire to care for the children that Doro has fathered with her ("wearing" different bodies each time) and her need to escape his grasp. Five stars.

The second book, Mind of My Mind, is set in the present day. Doro's breeding has created a widely dispersed population of troubled psychics, many of whom succumb to mental illness or suicide because of the torment their powers cause. One of his children, at the maturation of her powers, finds that she can connect telepathically to all the others to form a network ("The Pattern") from which she can both draw power and control everyone else. Four stars.

The third book (Clay's Ark) is only tangentially related to the previous two. In it, a crashed spacecraft's escaped inhabitant spreads a virulent extraterrestrial plague to everyone he comes in contact with. The mechanism of the disease is almost certainly an intentional nod to the AIDS epidemic. Those who survive the initial infection develop mutant powers of enhanced speed and reflexes, but with a terribly desperate need to spread the infection to others. The small rural community he infects struggles to remain isolated enough to keep the rest of (post-apocalype, by the way) humanity safe while culling enough uninfected outsiders to satisfy their needs. Three stars.

The final book, Patternmaster, is my least favorite. Despite the chronology of the stories, this was Butler's first published work, and it's not that strong. It is set far in the future, where The Pattern has grown stronger and links everyone on earth that possesses psychic ability, leaving un-gifted individuals as the "mute" servant class for their psychic masters. Two stars.(less)

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May 25, 2009 Korynn rated it 4 of 5 stars

I had read two of the books separately but this omnibus makes it obvious that as a series the books are even stronger than as individuals. Linked, the narrative builds into a greater whole. Mind of My Mind directly continues the story of Wild Seed, focusing entirely on Doro finally reaping what he has sown with consequences for the entire world as well as himself. Patternmaster marries Clay's Ark with the world resulted from Mind of My Mind into a horrific future in which the mutated/evolved Cla...more

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Dec 08, 2012 Megan rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: sci-fi

Ok. I was enjoying this set up until I got to the third book, Clay's Ark. Now, I'm not someone who squicks easily, but if I had known about this book I would not have read it. If you need trigger warnings for rape, well, don't read this. If you are pregnant, do not read this. Seriously, it's really full of rape. And it's continually justified by (view spoiler). Oh, and then (view spoiler)...more

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Mar 25, 2009 Janet rated it 3 of 5 stars Recommends it for: People who like Storm Constantine's Wraethu books

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This is a collection of four novels which tell the story of two different tribes of altered humans. Butler is an excellent writer, but I probably would not have picked up the second book if the entire series had not been bound together. They are not exactly pleasant reading.

The stories focus on fascinating, sometimes tragic, and often unlikeable characters struggling to understand and come to terms with their dangerous gifts and survive in very bleak societies. In both cases, the changes which d...more

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Jan 04, 2012 Stuart rated it 3 of 5 stars

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Seed to Harvest is actually four books in one, so it seemed like a good way to start reading the well-reviewed and recommended author Octavia Butler. The books were written individually some years apart and not in sequence, and to me they seemed like a mixed bag, even like a series of short stories rather than four separate novels. I shouldn't complain, though. I always object to books that don't have endings, only sequels, and here are four with actual endings, but linked togther. I enjoyed the...more

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Jul 16, 2008 Naima rated it 4 of 5 stars

I just made my way through the four book, epic "Patternist" series, and I can't say that it is my favorite of all Octavia Butler's books. But she does always satisfy with an engaging story, plenty of dark racially charged subjects, and complex sexual/gender dynamics.

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May 15, 2011 Kate Kulig rated it 4 of 5 stars

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This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. This book contains all four of the Patternist book, starting with Wild Seed. The series is fascinating in the way a bird is fascinated by the coiled snake in front of it. I could only read bits of it at a time because it was so intensely written.

The theme throughout is slavery, starting with a mad god (Doro) trying to create, through selective breeding, a race of telepaths. He treats "his people" well, but there is never doubt that he owns them, body and soul. Even the fertility goddess he seduc...more This book contains all four of the Patternist book, starting with Wild Seed. The series is fascinating in the way a bird is fascinated by the coiled snake in front of it. I could only read bits of it at a time because it was so intensely written.

The theme throughout is slavery, starting with a mad god (Doro) trying to create, through selective breeding, a race of telepaths. He treats "his people" well, but there is never doubt that he owns them, body and soul. Even the fertility goddess he seduces at the beginning becomes his slave, and she was only able to break his hold on her by threatening suicide. I wished she'd done it.

As often happens with gods, he is eventually killed by one of his own offspring in Mind of My Mind, but Mary begets something else more insidious--a pattern connecting all of Doro's descendants, where she can completely control them if she wishes. Neurotypical people are referred to as "mutes" and are used for child raising (telepaths do not make good parents) and are kept as slaves.

The third book departs from Doro's descendants and deals with slavery to a parasitic virus that came back with a space mission. While not intelligent as today's humans know intelligence, it forces its biological imperative to spread. Its victims try to stay contained, kidnapping people to add to their growing clan only when absolutely necessary. A doctor and his two daughters try for a mad escape and the worst happens.

In the final episode, the world building falls apart a bit. We know it's 200 years in the future since
Clay's Ark and the Patternists control the mutes, but there's never any explanation of the deterioration of technology--cross-country trips are done on horseback, for example. A fabulous life is offered the protagonist of Patternmaster, which is the first of the series to actually be published, but he has to submit to mental controls of the only man who could rival him for control of the Pattern.

At times touching, romantic, horrifying, wistful and inspiring, the series is worth reading, but don't expect the utopia some authors will present of the future. This ain't it.(less)

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Feb 28, 2009 Kris rated it 4 of 5 stars

I miss Octavia Butler. There are so few writers out there with a voice that's anything like hers, and science fiction could definitely use some. This is a collection of four books from her Patternmaster series (presented in order of events rather than order of publication), which starts with an immortal trying to breed psychic humans so he can steal their bodies and follows the story all the way through to his descendants fighting an extraterrestrial virus that mutates their children. Pretty awe...more

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Aug 15, 2010 Hayley rated it 3 of 5 stars

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This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. I read two of the four books in Seed to Harvest. I stopped after "Mind of My Mind," because it was bringing me down.

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The first book, "Wild Seed," centers on two fascinating characters: Doro and Anyanwu. In "Mind of My Mind," those two well-developed and interesting people fade more into the background (Doro is woven throughout the book, but with less space devoted, and Anywanwu - probably the first book's finest character - is all but gone).

Because of this and a few other thi...more

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Jan 21, 2010 Shannon is currently reading it

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This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Wild Seed

Doro:

'After a while, he realized it was no longer his anger at the loss of his seed village that drove him. It was something new--an impulse, a feeling, a kind of mental undertow pulling at him. He could have resisted it easily, but he did not. He felt there was something for him farther on, a little father, just ahead. He trusted such feelings,' (p6).

Anyanwu:

'No person of honest intentions would approach so stealthily,' (p7).

'You should have told me,' she said. 'You let yourself suffer...more

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Jun 14, 2011 Jeremy rated it 4 of 5 stars

Each of these four stories is very different, and though loosely connected, they don't necessarily flow seamlessly from one to the next.
Perhaps this is because book four was actually written first, and the three prequels were extrapolated from that and written over the course of the subsequent years.
My favorite story, "Clay's Ark," was written last though it is the third book. I enjoyed this one the most because it stands apart from the first two books (which are much more closely connected by...more

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Apr 11, 2013 Megan rated it 3 of 5 stars

The writing wasn't as strong as other books I've read by Butler, but I think this is some of her early work. And the books weren't written in chronological order so there's that. I think Wild Seed and Mind of My Mind were my favorites within the epic and were later I believe so she had time to strengthen her writing skills. Anyanwu was such a great character and no other character introduced really stuck with me like she did. You could've thrown them all away otherwise. However crappy some of th...more

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Jun 12, 2009 Sy rated it 4 of 5 stars

so, as of yesterday, i have finally read all but one of her patternmaster series: survivor, which i could not find and is not included in this compilation. it was a quick read because i had previously read wild see and clay's ark before and skipped them. :-) i adore octavia butler's style and although i was disappointed with the ending (patternmaster book), i understood her underlying reasoning. i just thought there should have been more. *shrugs* still, it's hard to put down an octavia butler b...more

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Apr 11, 2012 Jessica rated it 3 of 5 stars

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This is a 4-book compilation of Butler's Patternist series. I'm glad I read it. I picked it up because Butler was recommended as a strong female & PoC voice in the science fiction genre. I don't think there are enough women represented in the SciFi pantheon, and there certainly aren't enough PoC represented. Butler's books in this compilation affirmed her place among the best of them... even though the final book in the set (Patternmaster) was, frankly, terrible.

The first three books (Wild...more

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Mar 03, 2013 zjakkelien rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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These books are excellent. I very much enjoyed the first two books, in which the psychic abilities of a group of people increase due to enforced selective breeding. The person doing the enforcing, Doro, is amazingly understanding of his subjects yet cold. This particularly shows through contrast with Anyanwu, the woman who causes him such struggle. The third book I found disappointing. I didn't understand what link it had to the previous books. In a way, I suppose it didn't have one: it had a li...more

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Jul 13, 2010 Brittany rated it 4 of 5 stars

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You really shouldn't be allowed to read Patternmaster on its own, or in any way other than as the conclusion to this book. On its own, it's a pretty interesting story. In the context of Seed to Harvest it's the stunning conclusion to a carefully selected, deliberately reasoned set of circumstances.

Seed to Harvest begins with "Wild Seed." Now, I missed the first 25 pages of the story because they were ripped out of my copy, but I was able to reconstruct most of it. It's the fascinating tale of o...more

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Dec 31, 2009 Dionisia rated it 3 of 5 stars

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I have read several of Octavia Butler's books and count myself as a fan of her work. This particular series is not a favorite of mine but I was never bored. This omnibus contains four novels: Wild Seed, Mind of My Mind, Clay's Ark andPatternmaster.
Wild Seed begins in Africa during the time of the slave trade and introduces the seemingly immortal characters of Doro and Anyanwu. Doro has survived thousands of years by jumping bodies and has been carefully breeding humans to cultivate and strength...more

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Jan 25, 2009 Kim rated it 4 of 5 stars

This is an omnibus of four of the five novels of the Patternist series, Wild Seed, Mind of My Mind, Clay's Ark and Patternmaster. For some reason unknown to me, the third book in the series, Survivor, is not included in this omnibus.

The first novel, Wild Seed, was by far my favorite. It is the story of Doro, a man with a special power that allows his spirit to jump from body to body, leaving the discarded bodies dead. He quickly discovers that it gives him more pleasure to occupy the body of a p...more

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Oct 27, 2008 Jasmin rated it 5 of 5 stars

seed to harvest collects octavia butler's patternist series (minus survivor, which she disowned according to wikipedia) into a single volume. i truly appreciate how ms. butler's stories are gathered and presented in this format. at a time when reality is continually painful, escaping into her storytelling became a refuge that allowed me to see the world we're in with clearer eyes and still asking more questions.

seed to harvest includes:
* wild seed - originally published in 1980
* mind of my mind...more

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Nov 09, 2008 Aerin rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: science-fiction, female-sf-authors-of-the-80s-90s

This volume contains the four books in Octavia E. Butler's Patternist series: Wild Seed, Mind of My Mind, Clay's Ark, and Patternmaster. Spanning centuries, from the 1600's to the distant future, these books tell the story of two warring groups: the telepathic Patternists, and the mutated alien Clayarks.

Having loved Butler's Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents, I was looking forward to reading more of her work. However, I found reading these books an intensely unpleasant experi...more

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Sep 26, 2008 Chris rated it 4 of 5 stars Recommends it for: anyone and everyone

I really enjoyed this series. Maybe not as much as some of her other combined works but it was definitely a great read. I think part of the reason I didn't like it as much was that a few of the books (actually one in particular) had a pretty dismaying ending. The other part may have been that each book left me wanting more (which is a wonderful thing by the way). Still it was amazing to think about the evolution of new types of people and how their ways of life could pit them against each other...more

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Sep 16, 2010 Alex Telander rated it 2 of 5 stars

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SEED TO HARVEST BY OCTAVIA E. BUTLER: Collected for the first time are all four of Octavia E. Butler’s Patternist novels: Wild Seed, Mind of My Mind, Clay’s Ark, and Patternmaster. Now you get to see this whole unique world from its beginnings hundreds of years ago to its conclusion hundreds and thousands of years in the future. Seed to Harvest will delight and terrify you in a way only Butler can.

Our main character and quasi hero is Doro, who is more like a god or perhaps a devil in a way, inst...more SEED TO HARVEST BY OCTAVIA E. BUTLER: Collected for the first time are all four of Octavia E. Butler’s Patternist novels: Wild Seed, Mind of My Mind, Clay’s Ark, and Patternmaster. Now you get to see this whole unique world from its beginnings hundreds of years ago to its conclusion hundreds and thousands of years in the future. Seed to Harvest will delight and terrify you in a way only Butler can.

Our main character and quasi hero is Doro, who is more like a god or perhaps a devil in a way, instead of a human. He has a special power: he’s immortal, only to continue living forever he has to consume other people’s souls and become that person, inhabiting that body. He has been doing this for a thousand years, and lives his life as he does until one day he meets a woman, Anyanwu, in Africa, in the seventeenth century. She is a shapeshifter and has unique powers of her own, such as the ability to heal by a kiss, and with an incredible strength, she can defend herself against anything. Wild Seed is their story, as they meet and get to know each other, fall in love, and travel to New Amsterdam, where they will start their own family of gifted children. Along the way they find other characters with special abilities, which Doro believes is somehow linked to his history and his own powers. But Doro is also creating this family for his own personal survival, so he will have more victims to keep him alive and immortal. Wild Seed ends with the family now quite large, and Anyanwu unable to live with Doro anymore, leaving him.

Mind of My Mind is close to the present day, Anyanwu has changed her name to Emma, wanting to separate herself from her past, but unable to. Doro now lives in Forsyth, California, where his family continues to grow with new individuals and their unique powers. It is here that the Pattern begins to emerge of this large family that is all interrelated, and that is in constant struggle with the paternal master, Doro. The book ends with the final death of Doro, who is sealed in his current body, cremated and no longer able to take another, ending the line. But the Pattern is not finished.

Clay’s Ark is set in the twenty-third century and it is here that the spaceship, known as Clay’s Ark, returns to Earth with an alien and a sickness that begins to infect everyone. But at the same time a new race is formed out of the sickness, out of those on the spaceship, who become known as “Clayarcs.” And as time passes, they establish themselves as a formidable force on the planet.

Patternmaster is the mighty conclusion to the long series, where the Patternists and Clayarcs fight against each other in a distant future time where evolution has made them look barely human. This is a hostile and tough world, where only one race can triumph, the question is which one will it be?

While Seed to Harvest can be boiled down to a simple summary, Butler has weaved many emotions and issues that are ever present in the current world, on the subject of race and evolution, on what it means to be human. The book merely continues to prove that Octavia E. Butler was one of the best science fiction writers of her time.

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Aug 22, 2007 Christy rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: african-american-lit-and-history, science-fiction-and-fantasy

Wild Seed--The first part of this collection of four of Butler's novels turned out to be interesting, but not great. I liked the ideas she raised through the novel, but the development of the characters and the plot was somewhat lacking in the end.

I'm looking forward to reading the other books in this series to see where she goes with the ideas set up in Wild Seed.

(There's a much more detailed summary and review at my personal blog, [http://cmt2779.livejournal.com/87918....].

Mind of My Mind ta...more

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May 09, 2013 Linda rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: southern-fiction

Octavia Butler is one of my favorite authors and I very much enjoyed this collection. I remember starting the book while eating dinner at the Thai restaurant (its name keeps changing!) on Forest Avenue in Portland Maine about 5 years ago and just being amazed. I have not read any other books that use xenogenesis so effectively to explore some of the weightiest issues of human history, including genocide. I only learned about her a few years ago and now I recommend her all the time.

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Jan 28, 2011 Ann rated it 4 of 5 stars

Well I love Octavia Butler and this kind of visionary sci fi, so that that into account with my evaluation. There are four short books in this collection all parts of the same story, about a breeding project to develop telepaths and other humans with special powers that is undertaken by a half human mutation over a number of centuries, and what finally happens when the project is successful. There is good character development and interesting plot twists.

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Octavia Estelle Butler was an American science fiction writer, one of the best-known among the few African-American women in the field. She won both Hugo and Nebula awards. In 1995, she became the first science fiction writer to receive the MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Grant.

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